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Newsletter # 19
20th November 2014
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.pilgrim.sa.edu.au
Phone: (08) 8270 3033
Dear Parents,
Dates
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Saturday 22 November
P & F Woolworths BBQ
Year 7 Camp
It was another year of challenge for our Year 7s, as they toured the South-East of SA. It
was a wonderful week and the pictures really say much more than words.
Monday 24th November
Parents & Friends AGM
7.30pm Special Guests:
Glenda Perrott & Lucy Collins
Wednesday 26th November
Bali Connections 3.30pm
Sunday 30th November
Campus Treasure Market
Wednesday 3rd December
2015 Reception Students
Transition Visit
A special thank you to Mrs Wicks, supported by Mr Jenkin, Mrs Heath and for the firsttime Principal!
Thursday 4th December
Volunteers Thank You
morning tea.
Premier Effort – Pilgrim Hall of Famers and Mr Harris
The Premier’s Reading Challenge was a big event on our calendar for our “Hall of Fame
Readers for Life”:
All three schools on Campus joined
together in the Campus Gym to see the
Premier, Hon, Jay Weatherill award the
Hall of Fame certificates to students
from Thiele, Nativity and Pilgrim.
Thank you to Mr Andrew Harris for
organising this special visit. This is the
first time a Premier of South Australia
has visited Aberfoyle Primary School
Campus since it was opened in 1982.
Hannah Ricks, Vasili Pantelidis, Russel Fritz and Nathan Heath all from Year 7 received
their Certificates from the Premier, Hon. Jay Weatherill today. A great achievement!
A Special Thanks:
This week also sees the final Pilgrim Board Meeting for 2014. I would especially like to
thank David Powell, Lindsay Francis and Jenni Forder who are finishing their service to our
school. I am very grateful for the support, guidance and encouragement of each of these
Board members. We are losing some experience but each one will still be available to help
out where required.
Yours in His service
Nigel Bennett,
Principal.
Jesus said:
“I have come in order that you might have
life—life in all its fullness.”
John 10:10
Thank You
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Thank you to the Year 3 & 5 families who helped
at the Working Bee Saturday 15th November. The
following families helped out: Arbon, Forder,
Hoff, Larcombe, Mayers, Sutton, Curson,
Denholm, Dolman, Gardiner, Jackson, Milne,
Mulders, Pantelidis, Sheppard and second Sutton family.
Worship & Assembly Roster
Worship and Assemblies are held on Tuesday and Thursdays at
9.00am. Parents and friends are warmly invited to share in these
special times in the Performing Arts Centre. Come and join us!
November
December
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27
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Assembly - Year 4 & Year 6
Year 1 Worship
Indonesian & LAP Worship
Reception Worship
Farewell Worship Staff
Farewell Worship Students
Invitation to Year 7 Graduation
All parents and students are invited to the
Year 7 Graduation
Wednesday 10th December
7.00pm at Seeds UCA
42 Sunnymeade Road, Aberfoyle Park
Supper to follow.
Celebrate with the Year 7 students their joys and highlights
of being at Pilgrim School.
This is a wonderful, positive evening for parents, family,
and the wider school community to enjoy.
We are very proud of our graduating Year 7 students.
Premier’s Reading Challenge
Congratulations to four of our Year 7 students who have
successfully completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge for 8
years. They have now entered the Hall of Fame – Reader for Life
category and received certificates from the Premier, Jay
Weatherill.
Hall of Fame – Reader for Life
Russel Fritz
Nathan Heath
Vasili Pantelidis
Hannah Ricks
2014 Summary
4 Readers for Life (new award)
6 students completed certificates for the first time above
Reception year level
8 Hall of Fame Medals
7 Legend Medals
11 Champion Medals
25 certificates issued
15 Gold Medals
45 Silver Medals
25 Bronze Medals
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Most of the 2013 Bronze winners went on to complete Silver
All of the 2013 Silver winners went on to complete Gold
Almost of all of the 2013 Gold winners went on to complete
Champion
All of the 2013 Legend winners went on to complete the Hall
of Fame
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This indicates that students become more motivated to keep
going with the Challenge the more they take part ,which is
pretty amazing given that the upper year levels are reading
novels to complete their challenge.
 Students are still continuing to do the Challenge for the first
time, even through to Year 7.
 Carson Gardiner just pulled ahead of Lantz Gailis in Year 6
and Toni Mayers and Nicholas Forder in Year 3 for reading
the greatest number of books during the Challenge (over 60
books!)
 2014: 140 entries, 2013: 143 entries, 2012: 117 entries, 2011:
54 entries
Andrew Harris –
Premier’s Reading Challenge organiser at Pilgrim School.
Indonesian Special Activities
BALI Life Christmas Appeal
A big THANKYOU for the response to the
Bali Life Christmas Parcel Appeal. The
money received so far is a third of the way
to our goal so far! Don’t forget to enable your family to be a part of
this Christmas gift – it’s a real blessing to many children! Due by
28th November. Pass donations to the front office.
Indonesian Cooking and Feasting
Tuesday 25th November between recess and lunch ‘Indonesian
Cooking and Feasting’ with Years 5-6 and ‘Indonesian Food
sampling ’ open to year 3 and up(at lunch). (Further information
given to the classes involved). Please phone the school if you can
help out with either class – your help will be appreciated!
Bali Connections Event
Wednesday 26th November – Bali Connections Event at 3.30pm
in the Indonesian room for parents (children will be given
something quiet to do or taken to the computer room with
supervision). An invitation from Nigel and myself to join us for a
cuppa and to share and hear stories of recent Bali adventures and
hear about the work of Bali Life and Pilgrim’s evolving connection
to this.
Tuesday 2nd Dec – Indonesian assembly (as well as LAP
assembly) featuring something from every class (not every
student) of the recent language learning.
Roz Oldfield – Indonesian Teacher
Volunteers Thank you Morning Tea
To our Wonderful Volunteers
As a thank you for all the help you have given to Pilgrim School
the staff invite you to Morning Tea in the Oasis building on
Thursday 4th December
9.30am after Worship.
For catering purposes please RSVP by 26 th November.
Family Data
Family Data Base Check and Medical Forms have
been sent home this week to families who are
continuing in 2015. Rather than key in all the data
at the beginning of the year, we are updating family and medical
information now ready for 2015.
All Family data forms are required to be signed and returned to the
school by Monday 24th November (even if no changes) with any
changes/amendments marked clearly. Medical and medication
updates please return as soon as possible.
Bookroom Stationery
Parents & Friends
Prompt payment of Bookroom account for student stationery items
is appreciated. Any queries to Mandy, our Bursar.
Pastoral Care
Thank you to Joy Tonkin for all her hard work organising the care
of families at Pilgrim School. Her understanding and compassion
in this role has been awesome and well appreciated by many
families.
Joy has undertaken the pastoral care role for many years, and will
be finishing at the end of this year. Please contact Tonya on 0438
868249 or have a chat to Joy about what is involved if you are
interested in doing this.
Woolworth BBQ Saturday 22nd November
Thank you Juliet Sheppard, Susanne Milne and all the families
who have volunteered their time to help out this Saturday at the
Woolworth BBQ. This is a great fundraiser for our school. Why
don’t you come and see us and purchase a sausage –
we cook a great sausage!
P&F AGM
This Monday 24th November is our AGM. We would
like to have as many people as possible come along. 7:30pm in
the Oasis Building. Don’t miss out on teachers Lucy Collins and
Glenda Perrott sharing some thoughts as well as finding out what
we have fundraised and donated. Supper provided. We would love
to see you there!
Term Dates 2014
Nov
Dec
22
24
26
30
3
4
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10
11
P & F BBQ at Woolworths
Parents & Friends Annual General Meeting
Bali Connections Event 3.30pm
Campus Treasure Market
2015 Reception Students Visit
Volunteers Thank you Morning Tea
New Student and Transition Day
Year 7 Dinner and Graduation
Final Day of Term 4, Semester 2 Reports go home
2.00pm finish for students
STUDENT TERM DATES FOR 2015
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Wednesday 28th January
Tuesday 28th April
Wednesday 22nd July
Monday 12th October
Friday 10th April
Friday 3th July
Friday 25th September
Thursday 10th December
Public Holidays: Monday 26th January
Monday 9th March
Friday 3rd April
Monday 6th April
Monday 8th June
Australia Day
Adelaide Cup
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Queen’s Birthday
Student Free Days
Tuesday 27th January
Monday 27th April
Monday 20th July & Tuesday 21st July
Monday 7th September Royal Adelaide Show
(*to be confirmed)
Friday 11th December
Reader Stocktake
All readers for Year 4 – 7 students to be returned as soon as
possible please!
All Lexile coded books are undergoing a
big stocktake. As we have changed our
software program for tracking reading to
Literacy Pro, all books are needed to be added to the library
electronically.
It will truly be appreciated if all books can be returned by end of
Week 6 to undertake recording on our new school system.
Would you like to volunteer to help with adding
readers to the school library electronically? Please
talk to our front office ladies.
Information Sent Home
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Bali Life Christmas Parcels
Campus Newsletter
Faith Family
Family Data Check – as required Medical forms due 24/11
Scholastic Book club brochures
Volunteers needed for BBQ at Campus Treasure Market
Woolworths BBQ Volunteers help needed (email)
Year 2: Kytons Christmas Fundraiser
Year 4: End of Year catch up at Marion Pool
Year 5, 6 & 7: Seeds Impact
Year 6: Catering for Year 7 Graduation Dinner and Supper
Year 6: Invitation to attend Year 7 Graduation
Year 7 Graduation Invitations for family and friends
Class Liaisons for 2015
We are still in need of Class Liaisons. As you can see we have
many positions vacant. Please take some time to think about
whether you can give a small amount of time to help make Pilgrim
the great community school that it is. Thanks in advance! My
contact number is 0438 868 249.
So far for 2015 the following people have offered to be liaisons:
Reception
Rachael Gomez & Anneliese Gehrig
Year 1
Rachael Wheadon & ?
Year 2
Year 3
Angela Zimmermann + ?
Year 4
Jodie Hoff + ?
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Sue Raw & Christine Dunthorne
Kytons Christmas Treats
The last fundraiser for the year is being organised by the Year 2
class. Orders due by Wednesday 3rd December. Delivery day is
Wednesday 10th December, pick up goodies from eldest child’s
classroom.
Tonya Bishop- P&F President
Thank you from the Heading family
Catherine Heading, mum of Reece (Year 2) and Riley (Year 4)
sincerely wants to say thanks to all the Pilgrim families who have
expressed their love and care after the passing of
Philip. The generosity of people in providing meals for
the family has been very much appreciated.
Canteen Helpers
This year we have had a wonderful group of volunteers
helping Maggie in the canteen. Thursday is the day
Pilgrim is allocated to fill the roster of helpers.
Many thanks to this year’s Canteen volunteers
Andrea Partridge, Tracy Friend, Lisa Perry, Kathryn McLennan,
Marieke Botes, Tonya Bishop, Jenny Joy, Sandra Denholm,
Angela Zimmermann, Kristen Heath, Megan Muller and Julie
Maurer.
We are asking for more help for next year as we have some of the
year 7 parents are leaving. While Thursday is our allocated day, if
that day is not suitable, help on any other day would be excellent.
Remembrance Day
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Shared on 11 November by Joshua Gomez (Year 6)
The Victims of War
Poem by Louis Francis – Year 6
The grey blur of ships and weapons, a futile
attempt in a prolonged siege in which no side can
win, or at least come out unscathed. The men
leave in ships of dull green and steel, the women
give sorry glances and try to comfort each other,
but to no avail. The children cry and weep but the
ships will still go, and the cold numbness washes
over them, that none will come back the same as
they left. Never the less they still hope.
The soldiers have fear and hate in their hearts but
they feed on it to continue and remain strong for
the comfort of loved ones watching; watching
from the shores, awaiting their time. But it is time
that becomes your greatest enemy in war. You
want to die, want it to end; you don’t want to go
back to be celebrated for the terrible things you’ve
done. But time says no.
As the ships reach foreign shore, in a foreign land,
with foreign soldiers and foreign weapons, you
step onto the sand and, as the bullets hit your
form, you find a light in the darkness and fall to
the sand. For death is the only sanction for the
victims of war.
Today I want to share what Remembrance Day means
to my Grandfather. He was in the Vietnam War, 45
years ago. His name is David Joseph Mancer. He is the
President of the Kangaroo Island RSL, he is sorry to be
unable to make it here today as he is running the
Remembrance service over there.
Remembrance Day actually comes from World War 1
but all wars are remembered today. Here are some
numbers from World War 1. 332,000 Australians
went to World War 1. In that, 152,000 were wounded
and 61,000 killed.
In the Vietnam War 49,000 Australians went. 520
died and 2,400 were wounded.
In my Grandfather’s school class of twenty boys, 4 of
them went in the Vietnam war. 2 volunteered and the
other 2 were called. 2 of them died and the other one
died later from serious wounds.
In that war our Government had a system called
conscription where they would randomly pull
birthdays out of a hat and if your birthday was called
you had to go to war. My Grandfather, who was a
young policeman at the time, registered and
volunteered himself and coincidently a few weeks
later his birthday was called. He did 6 months of
training and then left for Vietnam on an air-craft
carrier (he calls it a cruise ship).
He spent 3 years there and was made a Corporal in D
th
Company. On May 26 1968 during a terrible battle
called the Tet offensive, Pops was acting Sargent and
ran out under open fire and with a sandbag of
grenades into enemy territory. He also had to climb
up onto one of our tanks to direct it as
communications were down and it didn’t know where
to shoot. He didn’t tell me all that. I looked it up in
the citation that came when he earned a Military
Medal for bravery. He doesn’t tell anyone serious
stories. He always just says he played a few games of
football with the enemy.
My pops was lucky that he was born with a great
sense of humour. He was very good at keeping up
morale in his platoon. He always tries to see the
positive side and have a joke. Even now, when all his
old digger mates get together for reunions, there is
lots of stirring and joking.
However, Pops is very serious and respectful of Anzac
Day and Remembrance Day though. They are a time
to remember the friends he lost and all the men and
women who died in Wars protecting our country.
Australia is so lucky to be free of the worry of war.
We need to remember all the people who died
protecting us.
I’m very proud of my Grandfather and I’m proud to
be a free Australian.
SACSA Basketball
Two teams were entered into SACSA Basketball this year.
Congratulations to the following students who were selected to
play.
Year 4 & 5 SACSA Basketball Team:
Daniel Forder, Josh Friend, Callum Hillier, Lucas
Langley, Matthew Sutton, Caleb Tonkin, Elijah Bishop,
Jonathan Raw and Jayden Wallis.
Year 6 & 7 SACSA Basketball Team:
Troydn Bristow, Nathan Heath, Seth Stockman, Lachlan Tillett,
Jack Zimmermann, Patrick Raw and Hannah Newbury.
Library
Student borrowing ends tomorrow 21st November. All
student resources are due back by the end of week
7, 28th November for stocktake. We appreciate
prompt return of all Campus Library books.
APHS Ignite Program Application 2015
Application forms for this program can be obtained by
downloading from the Aberfoyle Park High School website
www.aphs.sa.edu.au/Ignite<http://www.aphs.sa.edu.au/Ignite> or
by
Phoning:
8270
4455
Or
by
Emailing:
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
The closing date for applications will be Friday the 6th of February
2015, the testing for a place in the Year 8 Ignite program for 2016
will be held at Aberfoyle Park High school on Saturday morning
the 21st of February 2015.
Campus Treasure Market
The next Treasure Market will be h e l d o n
Sunday 30th November from 10am,
on the Campus Main Oval and COLA, Campus
Drive, Aberfoyle Park. There will be a huge number
of variety and craft stalls, hot food and BBQ, drinks and treats.
Grab a great Christmas bargain
CAMPUS SPONSORS
The Campus Tornadoes Pedal Prix Team
Invites you to our “Come and Try” evening
Friday 21st November 2014
6.30pm to 7.30pm
Nativity Carpark, London Rd Aberfoyle Park
Open to all Campus students who will be in year 6 or 7 in 2015
Come along and have a ride in one of our trikes.
Please wear comfortable sports clothes, sneakers and bring a
bike helmet.
Please also bring along at least one parent.
You will be able to ask questions of members of our 2014 team,
including our parents. An information sheet will be available on the
night and an information night will be held in early term 1 2015.
RSVP: [email protected]
UNIFORM SHOP
The Campus uniform shop is situated between the Campus
office and library, and is open at the following times.
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
2.30pm -3.30pm
8.30am-9.30am
8.30am-9.30am
If you are unable to get into the shop you may order via e-mail at
[email protected] or phone 8276 8449
or the front office has an order form.
SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE
The School Dental Service is a Child Dental Benefits Schedule
provider. All babies, children and young people under 18 years
are welcome to attend.
Dental care is FREE for most children. Children who do not
qualify for the Child Dental Benefits
Schedule can also attend – a small fee
will apply for each course of general
dental care provided.
All dental care provided is FREE for
preschool children.
The nearest Clinic is Marion GP Plus Healthcare Centre
Telephone: (08) 7425 8400
Location: Level 1, 10 Milham Street, Oaklands Park
located adjacent to the Adelaide Aquatic Centre at Marion
For more information about the “Child Dental Benefits
Schedule”, visit www.sadental.sa.gov.au .
Community News
“GOOD NEWS it’s Christmas!”
Are you interested in volunteering your time to help take the
Christmas message to the children in our local primary schools?
This year’s program: “GOOD NEWS it’s Christmas!” is fun and well
organised with lots of activities for the children.
Team members are all ages and from many churches in our area.
For more information contact Jacqui John 83837264
[email protected]
or
Tenille
Chambers
[email protected]
Appleton Sports School Holiday Cricket Academy
Scotch College- Carruth Rd, Torrens Park
Wednesday 17th, Thursday 18th & Friday 19th December 2014
Coaching Academy (Children aged 5-11 years)
9:00am–12:00pm $110.00 per child (Inc. GST) for 3 days
Pathway Academy (Children aged 12-17 years)
1:00pm – 4:00pm - $140.00 per child (Inc. GST) for 3 days
For further information please contact – Jeremy Appleton
Mobile - 0408 490 079 or Email - [email protected]
Girl Guides
‘have lots of fun’ make new friends’ have a girls only
space’ try adventurous activities’ go camping ‘are part
of a global movement’ learn leadership skills ‘get
involved in the community ‘learn life skills’ plus lots
more!!!’
Girl Guides are having fun today, leading the world tomorrow.
There are currently vacancies at Happy Valley Girl Guides.
Contact Angela Higgins on 0408 977188 for meeting times.
Hills Christian Family Centre Blackwood presents:
Holiday Activities for 7-12 & 13-16 year olds!!!
Join in great fun filled experience & make new friends at Active
Ed’s ‘Summer Water Adventure' holiday camp to be held 21st-23rd
of January (Adelaide Hills). Active Education offers campers a
wide variety of age appropriate activities. Indoor and outdoor play,
non-competitive sports activities, recreational kayaking and water
play, arts and crafts, challenge course, night laser tag, dress-up
night with costume parade and much more! Your child will meet
new friends; have fun AND GO HOME WITH A SUMMER CAMP
TSHIRT! For more information, application forms & discount offers
check out www.activeed.com.au or phone 8370 1500.
Summer Reading Club – Hub library
Keen to keep reading through the school holidays?
Want to win some prizes too?
Come to the Hub library Summer Reading Club launch for a “Time
Traveling Quest through the Ages”.
Discover Ancient Egypt, robots of the future, and journey all the
way back to prehistoric times.
Summer Reading Club launches on Monday 1 December 3.304.30pm at the Hub library. Book now on 8384 0100 or at
www.onkaparingacity.com/libraries.
What’s been happening in the Year 1 classroom…
iUnit – on Healthy Eating and Being Active – here’s our ‘cute fruit’
Published
authors
Washing our Tennis
handsClinic:
helps where
to
everyone
had
a
ball!
keep us healthy
Posters we made in computing about ‘being active’